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Should stations have "exclusives"

I stand corrected. Tickets dot com is indeed owned by MLB. Let the CC apologists skewer me now.
 
XTalker said:
Is WTQR vulnerable? Yes! But so far, no competitor has had the resources to make it happen. It takes time and money! Lots of money - and lots of time! Won't happen in a year, or two.
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TQR has been vulnerable for 20 years. 102 had the money in those days, had the people who knew how to take them out and were doing it, knew it would take time but Beasley got cold feet 2 years into it, by buying more stations than he could afford with all that money and then had to bail on many of the more expensive formats (like country) just to keep the company afloat (his LA station was bought for too much money and CBS changed formats to compete and almost bankrupt the company). Jamz was a purely a cost cutting move to get ratings up fast and to sell the station to raise money to keep LA going. Greed gets you every time.

Others haven't had neither time nor money and TQR has been VERY lucky through the years. And they know it.
 
I agree that the best course of action The Wolf could have taken would be to host a before or after concert party down the street. That would have shown a lot more class.

And, just for the record, I think WHSL "Whistle 100" was making inroads on WTQR until they killed it. They had some nice billing going on at one time. They had some very strong salespeople and they were making it happen until they were bought by CC.
 
It still boils down to having the money and the commitment. So far, no one that has tried has had either! I never said there hadn't been real attempts - they lacked the commitment to time and money that it will take to make it work.
 
rf_chaser said:
Summit Communications. A company owned by two lawyers from Davie County who were as parnoid as two lawyers could get.
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Actually, WTQR was owned by Summit Communications, which was owned by the Gray family (Bowman Gray, as in the School of Medicine, former President of RJR Tobacco). They put it on the air as WSJS-FM.

Summit sold its radio group in 1987. It was bought by 2 former Vice Presidents of Summit, Pete Schulte and Steve Robertson. Robertson lived in David County.

They eventually sold the stations to Fairfield Communications.
 
The company that owed WTRQ in the late 80s and early 90s was called New Market Communications!

Complete the chain - Fairfield merged with Clear Channel. Clear Channel sold WSJS to CBS and kept WTQR when CC merged with AM/FM. CBS sold WSJS to Curtis in 2007.

Interesting that Dan Mason is back in charge at CBS. I bet he would have kept WSJS (being a lover of heritage stations).

I can tell you from experience in the 1980s, the research on WTQR was that it was solid as a rock. Mann Media did a study in about 1983 or 1984 to see if it was worth it to take on WTQR with the 100.3 signal. The project showed the TQR cume was solid as arock and that it would take dynamite to get them away.
 
I think TQR had an agreement with Cruzan Rum, the sponsors of the tour. So yea they had exclusive rights to the show/venue. The Wolf was fine across the road where their generator made the blow up wolf look like it had ED. The problem was them parking inside the gate and passing out stuff.

I wasn't around radio when the country 102 thing happened, but I know that some of the folks inside CC now wouldn't do that. Case in point, 94.5 crashed 102's Super Jam a few years back when they were The Beat. They got permission from all the businesses and hit up the other side of High Point Road with banners. The Jamz guys tried to make them take it down, then ripped it down and left the banner in the business parking lot that the Beat van was. Well, the owner wasn't happy and the Jamz guys got a littering ticket from the patorlman across the street. See THAT'S how you crash your competiton's event!

One of you guys was right, TQR is damned if they do, damned if they don't.

When you get down to it, TQR's promotions did a bang up job and was all over it with give aways and promotions while the Wolf had jack crap. Maybe 93 will learn from this for next year.

Hint for Wolf Jocks: If a country superstar is coming to town, don't insult him and speculate about his penis size to one of his fans calling in...not smart
 
Bottom Line; Stations should have exclusives.

The competition should do the best they can to crash them and hijack them. That's what makes the biz fun.
 
It is only a matter of time before some TV lawyer files a class action lawsuit against someone!
 
Venues should be free to do what they want to sell tickets. If they wish to give exclusives, so be it. BUT, one day, the bog dog in town could be the one sucking hindt*t. Witness the WSSL 100 vs. heritage WESC battle in Greenville, SC. Or the Kat vs. SOC in Charlotte (although SOC has rebounded in the last couple of books).
 
I gather from the conversation that most of us on this board believe the exclusive event is a way of life and just part of the competitive game.

For those who don't, what would you suggest is the answer?
 
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